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Westward Movement & Manifest
Destiny
Manifest Destiny
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Mexico ruled the southwest
territory. This included California,
Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada,
and parts of Colorado.
More Americans began to move
west and settle in California.
Americans wanted California and
the rest of the southwest
territory.
Many Americans saw their nation
and its democratic government
as the best in the world. The
believed that we had the right and
the duty to spread their culture
across the continent all the way to
the Pacific Ocean. This belief
was called Manifest destiny.
What about the Oregon Country?
 Oregon was still being
shared by the US and
Britain, and now many
Americans were heading
westward. America did
not want to share any
longer, but they also
didn’t want to get into a
war with England. The
US and England came to
a compromise. Britain
got all lands north of
latitude 49 degrees, and
America got everything
south of latitude 49.
Well then what about Texas?
 Texas would prove a little
trickier. Texas again applied
for statehood, but were denied
because America was worried
that it would start a war with
Mexico. So Sam Houston,
the president of Texas, did
something very tricky. He told
the US that if they weren’t
interested in Texas, then
maybe England was. The
trick worked, and in 1845,
Texas was admitted to the
union.
Estos son mis ojos enojados!!!
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Mexico was so angry at the United
States for annexing Texas that a war
broke out. This is known as the
Mexican War. The war lasted from
1846 to 1847. Both sides fought
bravely, but in the end, the US military
was too strong for Mexico. The United
States eventually captured Mexico
City and Mexico was ready to make
peace agreements.
In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
Mexico had to cede (give up) most of
California and New Mexico. In return
we paid them 15 million, and promised
to allow those Mexicans already living
in those places to stay.
A few years later, the US bought a
strip of land in Arizona and New
Mexico that completed the United
States as we know it today. This
completed Manifest Destiny.